History: Tame is the chieftain of the Kahunas, an
extra-dimensional race of beings who were worshipped as gods by the ancient
Oceanic aborigines of the Pacific Islands. While the exact origin of the Oceanic
gods is unrevealed, as compared to other pantheons of gods such as the
Olympians
and the Anunnaki,
it is believed the Kahunas, also known as the Atua in the Polynesian Islands,
may have originated on the ancient island of Avaiki, now modern Raiatea in
French Polynesia, later extending their worship
through Micronesia, Oceania and the Australian continent. Most of modern-day
worship of the Oceanic gods is felt and centered around the Hawaiian Islands,
believed to have been created by the goddess
Pele.

Tame is one of the sons of the primeval earth-goddess, Gaea, known to the
Polynesian aborigines as Papa-tuanuku and her mate, Rangi-nui, the ancient
sky-father, whose essence filled the biosphere of the earth's atmosphere just as
Gaea had infused her life essence into the Earth itself. According to ancient
myths, Rangi so loved Papa that he held her within a tight embrace and refused
to let her go. As a result of this tight embrace, clouds and darkness covered
the earth and all living things remained stifled between sky and earth.
Realizing that nothing on earth would survive unless they could separate sky and
earth, each of Tame's brothers took turns trying to separate their parents, but
they were largely opposed by their brother, Ku, the war-god. Finally, Tame
cleaved a great axe from divine materials and used it to break apart Rangi and
Papa, rising his father into a lofty place in the heavens decorated by stars and
adorning his mother with trees that reached to the sky. In doing so, Tame
reportedly established day and night and the calendar and became ruler over his
fellow gods.

When it came time for Tame to claim a wife, he took his sister,
Haumea,
the food-goddess, to serve by his side over the other gods. His decision was met
by dissension by the sea-god, Tangaroa, who possibly desired Haumea as his own.
Tangaroa attacked Tame by stirring great storms and winds to lash at the land
and wash it away, but he could not keep these storms going consecutively. As he
rested, Tame armed mortal man with the ability to create canoes, spears, hooks
and nets to invade the sea to catch fish and farm the sea. Tangaroa continued to
attack Tame from time to time over the years until Tame tried to placate his
brother by offering him his daughter, Hiiaka, the sea-goddess, as a bride.
Tangaroa's anger to his brother was placated by the offer and he took Hiiaka as
his wife, but there is still some enmity toward Tame by Tangaroa, who still
feels slighted for not being able to be ruler of the gods and still sending
storms still lash at the Pacific islands from time to time.

At some point, Tame seduced his daughter,
Hina-hau-one, the
dawn-goddess. According to some stories, he had created her from sand to be his
lover, but when she discovered he was her father, she fled from the earth and
descended down into Po, the underworld, to become goddess of the dead. Her
daughter, Hina-nui-te-po, became goddess
of death, responsible for escorting mortal souls into the underworld.
Hina-ahu-one eventually took
Tawhaki,
the thunder-god, as her husband and co-ruler of the underworld.

Tame became a kind and beneficent god to his
worshippers and imparted wisdom and knowledge to his worshippers, showing them
how to create and build homes and tools from trees. Around 1000 AD, he was
approached by
Odin,
monarch of the
Asgardian Gods
to meet with the heads of the other pantheons of gods who were once worshipped by
mortals on Earth to discuss the threat of the Third Host of the Celestials. The
Celestials were a cosmic extra-terrestrial race which had influenced the
evolution of mortal man on earth, and Tame had to pledge along with the godheads not to
interfere with the plans the Celestials had with humanity after they had
threatened to seal off the godsí interdimensional passageways connecting the
godsí dimensions with earth. Odin also extracted a pledge from Tame to help
defend humanity should the Celestials ever prove to be a threat to earth, and
after the Asgardian gods lost their life-forces in battle with the Celestials,
Tame granted a portion of the life-energies required to
Thor
in order to restore the Asgardians to life.

Tame has not been active on earth as much, preferring his leisure time
traveling from modern mortal travel spots through the Pacific Islands,
particularly near Hawaii where his daughter Pele has often been felt. He has
appeared in several meetings with the god-heads of Earth against dangers to
Earth, such as Mikaboshi
and the Skrullian Gods.

Height: 6' 0"Weight: 445 lbs.Eyes: BrownHair: Black

Strength Level: Tame has superhuman strength to an unknown degree; in his
youth, he was capable of Class 100 level strength, enabling him to lift (press)
over a hundred tons. In recent times, he might be equal to such gods as Odin and
Zeus and can lift (press) only around 80 tons under optimal conditions.

Known Superhuman Powers: Tame possesses the conventional physical
attributes of the Kahunas or Oceanic gods. Like all Kahunas, he is extremely
long-lived, but he is not immortal like the
Olympian gods.
He has aged at an extremely slow rate since reaching adulthood and
cannot die by any conventional means, but he is not entirely immune to death. He
is immune to all Earthly diseases and is resistant to conventional injury. If he
were somehow wounded, his godly life force would enable him to recover with
superhuman speed. It would take an injury of such magnitude that it dispersed a
major portion of his bodily molecules to cause him a physical death. Even then,
it might be possible for a god of significant power, such as Baiame,
Tangaroa or Tu for a number of Oceanic gods of equal power working together to
revive him. Tame also possesses superhuman strength and his Kahuna metabolism
provides him with far greater than human endurance in all physical activities. (Kahuna
flesh and bone is about three times as dense as similar human tissue,
contributing to the superhuman strength and weight of the Oceanic Gods.)

Tame also has abilities to tap into and manipulate mystical energies for
feats of magic. His exact level of power is unknown, but it is believed he is
equal to such as gods such as Thor and Odin, capable of controlling the weather,
casting spells on ordinary objects, traversing dimensional worlds and altering
his form. Despite his great age, he is physically powerful and has the
appearance of an old man on earth, but regains his youthful guise in Celestial
Hawaiki, the home of the Oceanic gods.

Abilities: Tame is a kind and beneficent god with the ability to create
and carve things from wood. His expertise in crafts is not up to the proficiency
of other artisan-gods.

Weapons: Tame carries a sacred axe with the power to rattle the earth and
cut through dimensional barriers.

Pets: Tame is the protector of birds, namely sea-going birds like
albatross and sea gulls. He protects all birds whether they are native to the
ocean or not.

Base of Operations: Tame rules over the realm of Celestial Hawaiki, named
for the ancient name of Hawaii. Resembling a large asteroid floating in
other-dimensional space, it resembles an island with regular intervals of night
and day protected by an undefined force that protects the edges of it from
eroding away. The sea around Celestial Hawaii is connected with the oceans of
earth; the sea-gods such as Tangaroa are capable of rowing back and forth
between realms. In fact, this realm seems to be adjacent to Earth; an
inter-dimensional nexus between both worlds exists near Raiatea in French
Polynesia. Celestial Hawaiki is populated by a number of other beings such as
the Menehune, which resemble the elves of Asgard
and Otherworld,
and a race of lizard men descended from both gods and mortals.

Comments: This bio involves Tame in the Marvel Universe; he has not been
seen in the DC Universe.

In Oceanic mythology, Papa is the name of Mother Earth and Rangi is the Sky
Father; When Gaea claimed to be Rangi in Thor #301, the writers had switched the
genders of the primeval parents.